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[daddy-ul]

Bob Rock in the Desert

from Metallica - Metallica, Classic Albums

transcript under the cut

Bob Rock: when I made my mind up to do metallica, I wanted to do metallica, but oddly enough I had to choose between metallica and doing, uhm... I worked with Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, and he and I are great friends. And he said I wanna do a solo and I want you to do it. At that point it was like, you know: should I let down a friend or should I do this band? So I ended up going on a vacation with my family --my kids and my wife-- we are going through the desert by the Grand Canyon, we are driving along. And there is this person on the side of the road, an indian on the side of the road, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, sitting on the side of the road with a Metallica t-shirt on. And I went "oh my god! that's a sign!". About an hundred miles I stopped for gas. I went into a gas station, to pay for the gas, and Metallica were on the radio, and everybody said that they've never been on the radio -that's when I knew. I phoned my manager, I said: "sorry Ritchie, I gotta do this".